Broken Blossoms (1936 film)

Broken Blossoms
Directed by	John Brahm
Written by	Emlyn Williams
Based on	Limehouse Nights
Produced by	Julius Hagen by Thomas Burke
Starring	Arthur Margetson Emlyn Williams Basil Radford Dolly Haas
Cinematography	Curt Courant Hal Young
Edited by	Ralph Kemplen
Music by	Karol Rathaus
Production company	Twickenham Studios
Distributed by	Twickenham Film Distributors Ltd (UK) Imperial Distributing Corporation (US) Haussmann Films (France)
Release dates	20 May 1936 (1936-05-20) (UK) 13 January 1937 (1937-01-13) (US)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Broken Blossoms is a 1936 British drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, Basil Radford and Edith Sharpe. Director Bernard Vorhaus was technical supervisor.^[1]

The film is based on the short story "The Chink and the Child" by Thomas Burke from his collection Limehouse Nights (1916), and was produced at Twickenham Studios in London. The story had previously been adapted by D. W. Griffith for his film Broken Blossoms (1919) starring Lillian Gish.

A Chinese Buddhist missionary comes to London where he works in the slums and helps a young girl being ill-treated by her abusive father.

• Dolly Haas as Lucy Burrows
• Emlyn Williams as Chen
• Arthur Margetson as Battling Burrows
• C. V. France as High Priest
• Basil Radford as Mr. Reed
• Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Reed
• Ernest Jay as Alf
• Bertha Belmore as Daisy
• Gibb McLaughlin as Evil Eye
• Ernest Sefton as Manager
• Donald Calthrop as Old Chinaman
• Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Lossy
• Kenneth Villiers as Missionary
• Dorothy Minto as Woman
• Sam Wilkinson as Guide
• Jerry Verno as Bert

• Broken Blossoms at IMDb
• synopsis at AllMovie
• Broken Blossoms at the BFI's Screenonline

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